True Stories

At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and
slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall. "Big breaths," I
instructed. "Yes, they used to be," remarked the patient.

Dr.Richard Byrnes,
Seattle, WA
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One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her
husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five
minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he
had died of a "massive internal fart."

Dr. Susan Steinberg,
Manitoba, Canada
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I was performing a complete physical, including the visual acuity test.
I placed the patient twenty feet from the chart and began, "Cover your
right eye with your hand." He read the 20/20 line perfectly. "Now your
left." Again, a flawless read. "Now both," I requested. There was silence.
He couldn't even read the large E on the top line. I turned and discovered
that he had done exactly what I had asked; he was standing
there with both his eyes covered.
I was laughing too hard to finish the exam.

Dr. Matthew Theodropolous,
Worcester, MA
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During a patient's two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist,
he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his
medications. "Which one?" I asked. "The patch. The nurse told me to put on
a new one every six hours and now I'm running out of places to put it!" I
had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn't see...Yes,
the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now the instructions include
removal of the old patch before applying a new one.

Dr. Rebecca St. Clair,
Norfolk, VA
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While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient, I asked, "How long
have you been bedridden?" After a look of complete confusion she answered..
"Why, not for about twenty years, when my husband was alive."

Dr. Steven Swanson,
Corvallis, OR
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I was caring for a woman from Kentucky and asked, "So how's your breakfast
this morning?" "It's very good, except for the Kentucky Jelly.
I can't seem to get used to the taste," the patient replied. I then asked to
see the jelly and the woman produced a foil packet labelled "KY Jelly."

Dr. Leonard Kransdorf,
Detroit, MI
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A Nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room, when a young woman with purple
hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and
wearing strange clothes entered. It was very quickly determined that the
patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery.
When she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed
that her pubic hair had been dyed green, and above it there was a tattoo that
read, "Keep off the grass." Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote
a short note on the patient's dressing, which said "Sorry, had to mow the lawn"Back to Jokes